Proms in the Park - Belfast Titanic Slipways BBC Proms

Good evening and thanks for joining us for highlights

of Proms In The Park 2016.

Over the next hour, we have performances from a superb line-up

of international talent, including one of the UK's

best-loved sopranos, Lesley Garrett.

Direct from Les Miserables on Broadway,

musical theatre legend John Owen-Jones.

Dazzling Slovakian violinists Vladimir and Anton.

From Sweden, virtuoso clarinettist Martin Frost,

and from Derry, Londonderry, acclaimed chamber choir Codetta

and pianist Ruth McGinley,

all accompanied by the Ulster Orchestra,

currently celebrating their 50th anniversary under the baton

of conductor David Brophy.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your hosts,

Noel Thompson and Claire McCollum.

APPLAUSE Hello, everybody.

A very warm welcome indeed to all of you here this evening.

We are delighted to welcome you to the event of the year -

it's Proms In The Park 2016.

Yes, it is.

You can can the Coliseum, you can eradicate the Eiffel Tower.

This is officially Europe's best tourist destination.

How lucky are we to be here tonight?

And a big thank you of course to Belfast City Council for helping

to make it all once again possible.

You're in for a superb night of classical entertainment.

This year, the stage and screen is the theme,

and you will be hearing performances from some of the best-loved

shows and movies from around the world,

like Carmen, Phantom of the Opera, Les Mis, Moulin Rouge.

The list goes on and on.

Let's get right into it.

A real treat for you, ladies and gentlemen.

Forget about Dueling Banjos,

this is virtuoso violins.

Please welcome Anton and Vladimir.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

Right, ladies and gentlemen, our next artist is simply

one of the most exciting in the classical music arena.

He's an award-winning clarinettist from Sweden,

but he's won an international reputation for dynamic

collaborations with orchestras right around the world,

from Stockholm to Sydney.

This year, he released his latest album, called Roots,

in which he explores the origins of classical

in religious and folk music.

We are delighted he is here to perform some of it

for us this evening.

Would you please give a very warm welcome, all the way from Sweden,

it's Martin Frost.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

He's a bit of a showman, isn't he?

Now then, ladies and gentlemen, we are delighted our next artist

is with us this evening.

He's an award-winning actor and singer.

Originally from Wales, he's a true veteran

of the musical theatre in the UK and, of course, on Broadway.

He has just completed a lengthy run on Broadway

as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

This is a role he really has made his own.

He played it for the first time when he was just 26 -

he was the youngest ever to take the role in the West End.

Here to perform for you this evening, direct from Broadway,

please give the warmest welcome ever to the wonderful

John Owen-Jones.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# God on high

# Hear my prayer

# In my need

# You have always been there

# He is young

# He's afraid

# Let him rest

# Heaven blessed

# Bring him home

# Bring him home

# Bring him home

# He's like the son I might have known

# If God had granted me a son

# The summers die

# One by one

# How soon they fly

# On and on

# And I am old

# And will be gone

# Bring him peace

# Bring him joy

# He is young

# He is only a boy

# You can take

# You can give

# Let him be

# Let him live

# If I die

# Let me die

# Let him live

# Bring him home

# Bring him home

# Bring him home. #

APPLAUSE

Thanks.

Thank you very much.

I'll see you again later, thanks.

Our next act most definitely qualifies for that rare accolade

of "national treasure".

She's had a long and hugely successful career in opera

and musical theatre, a career which brought her,

probably not before time, the CBE for services to music.

She's released 14 albums, she's hosted her own TV series,

she's appeared on everything from Loose Women

to Strictly Come Dancing.

And we are thrilled she is with us tonight on the Titanic slipways.

Please give a titanic welcome to the one and only Lesley Garrett.

# Bed, bed, I couldn't go to bed

# My head's too light to try to set it down

# Sleep, sleep, I couldn't sleep tonight

# Not for all the jewels in the crown

# I could have danced all night

# I could have danced all night

# And still have begged for more

# I could have spread my wings

# And done a thousand things

# I've never done before

# I'll never know what made it so exciting

# Why all at once my heart took flight

# I only know when he began to dance with me

# I could have danced, danced, danced all night

# I could have danced all night

# I could have danced all night

# And still have begged for more

# I could have spread my wings

# And done a thousand things, I've never done before

# I'll never know what made it so exciting

# Why all at once my heart took flight

# I only know when he began to dance with me

# I could have danced, danced, danced all night. #

Our next guest stared playing the piano at the age of five

and by the age of 16 was a winner of the BBC's Young Musician Of The Year award.

But after that whirlwind start to her career she ended up

taking quite a long break from public performance.

But we are delighted that 2016 sees the return to the

stage for our next performer.

She is absolutely fabulous, Derry's finest.

Please would you put your hands together for Ruth McGinley.

APPLAUSE

Right, ladies and gentlemen, time to welcome back two of the artists

we've already heard this evening.

Yes, they gave us some real classical fireworks earlier on

and they're about to do the very same again.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back Vladimir and...

Anton.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This has been a year of significant commemorations,

not least the anniversary of the Great War Battle of the Somme.

Yes, on 1 July 1916, almost 20,000 men died in possibly

the worst day in British military history.

The battle would eventually go on to claim 1.5 million lives.

The 36th Ulster Division was one of the first over the top on that

July day and at the end of that first day,

more than 5,000 men were dead, missing or wounded.

Communities right across the island were plunged into mourning.

Tonight, we pay tribute to the fallen, some just mere boys,

who still lie in those fields in northern France.

This is Codetta with Eric Whitacre's

hauntingly beautiful Sleep.

# The evening hangs beneath the moon

# A silver thread on darkened dune

# With closing eyes and resting head

# I know that sleep is coming soon

# Upon my pillow, safe in bed

# A thousand pictures fill my head

# I cannot sleep, my mind's a flight

# And yet my limbs seem made of lead

# If there are noises in the night

# A frighting shadow, flickering light

# Then I surrender unto sleep

# Where clouds of dreams give second sight

# What dreams may come, both dark and deep

# Of flying wings and soaring leap

# As I surrender unto sleep

# As I surrender unto sleep

# As I surrender unto sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep

# Sleep. #

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

OK. Our next artist holds the record playing the lead

in Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera in the West End.

He has played the Phantom something like 2,000 times

and he's here to sing some of that great music for us tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for John Owen-Jones.

Having a good time?

That's great, cos there's another 11 hours left.

Are you ready to dance?

Unfortunately, this song, you can't dance to.

This is Music Of The Night.

# Night-time sharpens, heightens each sensation

# Darkness stirs and wakes imagination

# Silently, the senses abandon their defences

# Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour

# Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender

# Turn your face away from the garish light of day

# Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light

# And listen to the music of the night

# Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams

# Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before

# Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar

# And you'll live as you've never lived before

# Softly, deftly, music shall caress you

# Hear it, feel it secretly possess you

# Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind

# In this darkness that you know you cannot fight

# The darkness of the music of the night

# Let your mind start to journey to a strange new world

# Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before

# Let your soul take you where you long to be

# Only then can you belong to me

# Floating, falling, sweet intoxication

# Touch me, trust me savour each sensation

# Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in

# To the power of the music that I write

# The power of the music of the night

# You alone can make my song take flight

# Help me make the music of the night. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the divine Ms Lesley Garrett.

# No more talk of darkness

# Forget these wide-eyed fears

# I'm here, nothing can harm you

# My words will warm and calm you

# Let me be your freedom

# Let daylight dry your tears

# I'm here, with you, beside you

# To guard you and to guide you

# Say you'll love me every waking moment

# Turn my head with talk of summer time

# Say you need me with you now and always

# Promise me that all you say is true

# That's all I ask of you

# Let me be your shelter

# Let me be your light

# You're safe, no-one will find you

# Your fears are far behind you

# All I want is freedom

# A world with no more night

# And you, always beside me

# To hold me and to hide me

# Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime

# Let me lead you from your solitude

# Share each day with me, each night, each morning

# Anywhere you go, let me go, too

# Lesley, that's all I ask of you

# Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime

# Say the word and I will follow you

# Share each day with me, each night, each morning

# Say you love me

# You know I do

# Love me, that's all I ask of you

# Anywhere you go, let me go, too

# Love me, that's all I ask of you. #

APPLAUSE

I hope you've had as good a night as we all have had up here.

Have you enjoyed yourselves tonight?

-CHEERING

-Hasn't it been marvellous?

And no rain! Thank you!

Wonderful.

We'd like to finish now with one of my very favourite

pieces of film music.

This is from Moulin Rouge and it involves the wonderful choir here

and it's called Come What May.

Thank you for being such a wonderful, wonderful

Belfast audience. See you next time.

# Never knew I could feel like this

# Like I've never seen the sky before

# I want to vanish inside your kiss

# Every day I love you more and more

# Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place

# Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace

# Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste

# It all revolves around you

# And there's no mountain too high

# No river too wide

# Sing out this song I'll be there by your side

# Storm clouds may gather

# And stars may collide

# But I love you until the end of time

# Come what may

# Come what may

# I will love you until my dying day

# Oh, come what may

# Come what may

# I will love you

# I will love you

# Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place

# Come what may

# Come what may

# I will love you until my dying day. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

That's the end of another Proms In The Park.

My goodness, it goes so quickly.

Roll on next year, that's all I can say.

Thank you to all our wonderful artists and, of course,

to the orchestra and to David Brophy.

APPLAUSE

Thanks to you all for being here this evening.

You were brilliant.

We have one more piece for you, from Moulin Rouge again, the Can-can.

Thank you all very much indeed, ladies and gentlemen.

We'll see you next year, we hope.

Goodnight. Goodnight.

APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE